THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 1942
Dominating play all the way in
every department, Bluffton High’s
resurgent Pirates whipped Pandora,
19 to 0, last Friday night at Harmon
field, in the annual renewal of tra
ditional rivalry between the two
schools.
To demonstrate their superiority
early in the game, the Swankmen
drove over for their first touchdown
in the opening quarter, added an
other in the second period, and tal
lied for the third time in the closing
stanza.
Bluffton’s offensive play continued
to show marked improvement, and
defensively the Pirates played a su
perb game that effectually check
mated every Pandora attempt to get
a scoring march under way.
It was a fine night for football,
and the traditional aspects of a
Bluffton-Pandora game found the
stands packed and sidelines crowded
with spectators from the two towns.
Pandora put up a game battle, but
the visitors early in the contest
This week’s gridiron menu for
Bluffton fans finds the college play
ing its first home game of the sea
son here Saturday afternoon, and
the high school tangling with Van
Wert at the Cougars’ stadium, Fri
day night.
Bluffton college’s foe in the annual
Homecoming tilt at Harmon field
Saturday afternoon will be a strong
Capital eleven, rated as one of the
best in the Ohio conference.
Local followers are not “selling
the Beavers short”, however, for the
team’s improved showing against
Kenyon last Saturday demonstrated
that the Burckymen have finally
added a scoring threat to their dog
ged defensive play.
Those in the stands for the home
coming assignment will find the
Bluffton team running many of its
plays from the widely-publicized “T”
formation this season, a departure
from offensive play of the Beavers
in past years.
Capital, tied last year by Bluffton,
6-6, has played one game this sea
son, in which the Lutherans trounced
Defiance, 32 to 0. Most of the mem
bers of the squad come from Class
A schools, and the Capital team will
be heavier and have more exper
ience.
Bluffton college’s fast improving
gridders gave a good account of
themselves at Gambier last Satur
day when the Beavers put up a dog
ged defensive and offensive battle
to hold Kenyon’s Ohio conference
team to a 12 to 6 victory.
For the second time in two weeks
an outstanding individual star of
Bluffton’s opponents ruined the
Burckymen’s hopes for victory.
This time the Beaver nemesis was
in the person of Halfback Bill Le
hecka. In the second period Le
hecka passed to an end, McCloed, for
the first touchdown of the game, and
he tallied the second himself on a
line plunge in the fourth quarter.
Bluffton High Winner Over Pandora,
13-0, In Traditional Gridiron Tilt
College Meets Capital Here Saturday
High School At Van Wert On Friday
Beavers Find Scoring Punch Too
Late And Kenyon Wins Game, 12-6
Bluffton put on a touchdown drive
Bluffton High’s improving gridders
will face a real test this week, when
they take on Van Wert’s Cougars at
Van Wert, in the first Western Buck
eye league contest of the season for
either’ competitor... .Van Wert de
fending champion, whose record was
blemished only by a tie to Bluffton
last fall, is in a dangerous mood....
After losing to Defiance two weeks
ago, their first defeat in two years,
the Cougars came back with a rush
last week to smear Kenton 47 to 6, in
an amazing display of power.
Two other league teams made good
records last week.........Bellefontaine
crushed Marysville, 32 to 6... .In the
opening league contest of the season
Celina got off to a good start with a
14 to 2 victory over Wapakoneta....
St. Marys, playing a non-league foe,
tied Coldwater, 7 to 7, by coming from
behind in the last quarter after trail
ing for two periods.......
Two other teams in this area had
more of a field day than that repre-
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found themselves unable to cope with
Bluffton’s edge in defensive and of
fensive play.
Bluffton counted six points in the
initial stanza when a 50-yard touch
down march was climaxed by a 20
yard pass from Herrmann to Schmidt
good for the score.
In the second quarter, the Pirates
ran their advantage to 12 points
when Bob Burkholder plunged over
the goal from the six-yard line to
conclude a scoring parade that
started near midfield.
After going scoreless in the third,
Bluffton uncorked another thrust in
the fourth period, good for a touch
down. Fred Herrmann tallied it on
a four-yard plunge, and he added
the point after touchdown on another
smash at the line.
Attempted placements after the
first two touchdowns went wide.
Last Friday’s victory was Bluff
ton’s second in three games, and
gives the green Pirate outfit a good
record marked by steady improve
ment.
Bluffton’s starting lineup will be
essentially the same as that which
did yeoman’s duty at Kenyon last
week. Kerr and Fred Soldner will
be at ends (with Hugus and Simcox
shifting to the flank on defense)
Fretz and Baumgartner, tackles
Paul Soldner and Hugus, guards
Simcox, center Wenger, quarter
back Beidler, left half Klassen or
Borse, right half Sommer or Keen
ey, fullback.
A test that may go far in deter
mining how the Pirates will rank as
a championship contender in the
Western Buckeye grid league this
fall awaits Bluffton High in their
game with Van Wert at that place
this Friday night.
As defending league champion,
Van Wert will put up a determined
battle, and altho the Cougars two
weeks ago suffered their first loss
in two years, they came back to
crush Kenton, 47 to 6, last Friday,
to demonstrate a powerful offensive
attack can be expected.
Last year Van Wert had a league
record blemished only by a 6-6 tie
with Bluffton, and games between
the two schools in previous years
have been equally as bitterly waged,
to provide a fitting background for
the annual renewal of hostilities.
of its own in the fourth, to demon
strate that the green Beaver aggre
gation is cutting its scoring teeth.
Determined to tally, the Purple
clad collegians drove to Kenyon’s 42
yard line, and from there fooled the
Ohio conference team completely
with a Beidler to Wenger pass good
for the touchdown.
Although Kenyon had the edge in
weight and experience, Bluffton’s
team, made up largely of first-year
men, put up a superb battle that
kept them in the running all the
way.
Marked improvement was seen in
every department of play, and the
team was decidedly different from
that which lost to Mt. Union by a
one-sided score one week earlier.
sented by Van Wert’s 47 to 6 victory
... .Arlington High laced McComb, 67
to 0, and Shawnee made its top score
in 10 years with a 52 to 0 victory over
Delphos Jefferson.........
In addition to the Arlington-Mc
Comb melee, other Hancock county
league games found Mt. Cory losing
to Van Buren, 13 to 6 an underdog
Rawson team rising up to tie Arcadia,
6 to 6, and Mt. Blanchard besting
Vanlue, 7 to 0.........
Switching of coaches within the
league has added to the intensity of
the Hancock county loop’s competition
this fall... .Coach Jim Morrison went
from Mt. Cory to Arlington, and Russ
Hasson moved from Rawson to Ar
cadia.... Morrison is in the favored
spot with his powerful Arlington
eleven doped to repeat as league
champions..........
After besting Findlay college in
their first start, Ohio Northern grid
ders lost last Saturday to Albion,
(Mich.) 6 to 0... .Findlay was tripped
up for the second time, losing to Kent
State 6 to 0....Lima South trimmed
Cincinnati Vocational, 19 to 0 Lima
Central lost to Toledo Scott, 14 to 0,
and Findlay High bested Fostoria
Ross 12 to 6.........
Siesta at College
A Latin-American custom helpful
to student health has been adopted
i by Stephens college, Columbia, Mo.
i The college has a daily “siesta”
hour at midday for relaxation, light
reading or letter-writing. The rest
period is said to have contributed to
better health and higher grades.
Speaker Interned In
Germany Says It’s
No Short War
(Continued from page 1)
pean cultures the German believes the
American nation cannot be taken ser
iously, Dr. Lehman pointed out.
German Morale
There was some slip in morale w’hen
the German army was unable to bring
the Russian campaign to a quick con
clusion as Hitler promised. However,
the advance made this summer have
raised the morale again to a high lev
el, it was stated.
Germany is bleeding the occupied
countries white in order to feed their
own population. Prisoners of war are
being used to till the fields and civil
ians in the occupied countries are be
ing forced to labor for the conqueror.
These techinques are providing suf
ficient food for both Germany civil
ians and armies.
Starvation in the occupied countries
is tremendous. In Greece 3,500,000
people will starve to death by Christ
mas. In Poland people are dying by
the hundreds of thousands of star
vation.
Order Out of Chaos
hTe speaker belived that the aver
age German is not completely sold on
Hitler and the priciples of the Nazi
party but go along with them because
they restored confiedence, unified the
country and brought order out of
chaos after the collapse of the Ewart
government in 1923.
Revolution in the country is far
from imminent and the people and
leaders all seem to have confidence in
victory. The speaker believed that
ultimately there would be revolution
in the country when German people
are at last convinced that the tide is
turnin against them.
Settlement
Dr. M. C. Lehman who has spent
several years in Europe in the in
terest of relief work spoke to a
large audience at the St. John
church Tuesday evening.
The Advisory Council met at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bixel
Monday evening.
The members of the family of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Ben Geiger had a
family gathering at the home of the
Misses Clara and Ella Geiger last
Sunday.
Mrs. John Wehrly passed away
at Gilboa last Thursday at the age
of 78 years. Funeral services were
conducted on Saturday at the
Methodist Protestant church in
Gilboa.
While returning from Ada last
Sunday evening where he had taken
his brother Paul, James Schey nar
rowly escaped serious injury when
the automobile which he was driv
ing left the highway and struck a
concrete catch basin near the Roy
Hauenstein home. The car was al
most totally demolished.
William Carr expects to have a
public sale in the near future. Mr.
and Mrs. Carr are remaining on the
farm and expect to rent the fields.
Ulrich Steiner left for Grabill,
Indiana last Friday to be at home
with Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Steiner
and family.
Albert Schutz and Glenn Cherry
spent several days in New York
City this week.
Mrs. Virgil Moser of Kenmore, N.
Y. is at present visiting her folks
here. Mr. Moser is at present in
Chicago and the family expects to
move to that city in the near fu
ture, where he is chief electrician at
the aeronautic plant at that place.
The Miller sorghum press is be
ing operated by an additional force
of workers from 6:00 p. m. to mid
night, beginning this Wednesday
night. A vast amount of sugar
cane has been produced this season.
Dan Walthers is at present build
ing an upground cellar at his home.
Wheat sowing is making steady
progress. A smaller acreage is be
ing sown in this locality, likely be
cause of the late corn harvest.
Ruth and Marcile Amstutz, who
are employed in Lima, spent the
week end with their home folks.
Many farmers are sustaining
heavy losses as a result of sickness
among their hogs. It is claimed by
many that weather conditions this
summer and fall have been very
conducive to swine ailments.
Ben Amstutz is to have a hog
sale on Oct. 16.
Dan Geiger, who for many years
has resided near Colfax, Wash., re
turned to Ohio recently and expects
spend the winter here. Mr. and
Mrs. Adam Hilty and one of their
daughters also from Washington
state, are enroute to Ohio to visit
among relatives and friends.
Donavin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Schumacher, of Findlay, en
tered Oberlin college last week.
The following were dinner guests
at the Menno C. and Millard Bas
inger home, Sunday: Mr. and Mrs.
Noah Habeggcr and son Arthur,
Mrs. E. H. Habegger, Mrs. Barbara
Habegger and daughters Anna Jayne
and Donna May and sons Glenn and
Merlin, Mrs. Anna Amstutz and sons
Jacob and Samuel, and Mrs. Lizzie
Graber, all of Berne, Ind. Mr. and
Mrs. Amos Basinger and Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Basinger and daugh
ters Doris Jean and Vera Alice.
Evening callers were Mr. and Mrs.
Milt Pifer and Edgar Pifer of
Jenera.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Rooming directly across the hall
from Clark Gable, American film
celebrity, James Griffith, grandson
of Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers of
South Main street, is living in a
luxurious Miami Beach hotel in
Florida where he is in training at
the Air Forces Officer Candidate
School.
Griffith, a graduate of Bluffton
High school in the class of 1936, and
from Bluffton college in 1940, will
complete his training progrm on De
cember 12 at which time he will be
commissioned a second lieutenant in
the A. A. F.
With 2,300 different kinds of
snakes in the world there are only
four poisonous snakes that are dan
gerous to man, it was stated by Jack
Raymon, w’ell known naturalist, who
addressed Bluffton High school stu
dents in an assembly meeting Tues
day morning.
Of these four, the copperhead, the
coral snake, the cotton mouth moc
casin and the rattlesnake only the
latter two are common enough to
constitute a real danger. The rattle
snake and cotton mouth are easily
identified by anyone familiar with
outward markings.
Bluffton Boy, In Air Officers’ School,
Has Room Near Clark Gable, Movie Star
Snakes Are Friends Of Man, Says
Naturalist In Talk At High School
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There are many celebrities in the
A. A. F. officers candidate school
but Gable, the movie idol, seems to
be a favorite of most of the men.
He is very popular with all of the
fellows who know him and is gen
uinely liked, Griffith stated in his
letter.
The candidates are housed in ho
tels and they dine in onee-expensive
restaurants frequented by American
millionaires and people of more than
average means.
The procedure at the school has
many unique features.
The cotton mouth moccasin has a
white mouth and the rattlesnake can
be identified by the rattles. The
copperhead is confined only to a
limited habitat and the coral snake
is so rare that very few people have
ever even seen one.
Most of the snakes are friends of
man and thrive on rodents and ani
mals harmful to man and his crops.
These should never be killed and
should be treated as friends, the
naturalist stated.
The poisonous snakes are a real
menace and should be exterminated.
In case of a bite by one of the
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poisonous varieties one should apply
a tourniquet between the bite and
the heart and make an incision of
about a quarter of an inch deep.
Suction should then be applied to
the wound so that the poison may
be drawn out.
If the lips are used to suck the
poison the individual need have no
fear because swallowing the poison
would not hurt him, unless there
were cuts or abrasions on the lips.
The poison hurts the blood stream
but not the stomach, the speaker
said.
Most bites, even by poisonous
snakes, will not be serious. However
a physician should be called as a
prevention against possible serious
effects from deep bites. An anti
venom serum will be injected into
the blood stream in case the bite is
considered serious.
441 Given Meals
At Lima Mission
During the month of September
441 transients were given meals at
the Lima City Mission, it was an
nounced by Rev. A. D. Welty, super
intendent. In the same period lodg
ing was given to 190. Many of the
soldier boys going through the city
stop at the mission, Rev. Welty said.
Hot Water Revives Them
To freshen dried-out lemons, or
anges or limes, plunge the fruit
into hot water for two or three min
utes, and you will be surprised to
see how nearly they return to nor
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PAGE THREE
Bluffton Woman
Named Guardian
Georgia Yerger was named guard
ian of her father, Clyde Yerger, 66,
in proceedings in the Allen county
probate court and posted $11,000
bond in the case. He was adjudged
incompetent by reason of physical
disability.
Ebenezer Broadcast
A group of mixed voices 'will be
heard in the weekly broadcast of the
Ebenezer Mennonite church over
Findlay radio station WFIN Sun
day afternoon at 4:15 o’clock. Sing
ers will lie Vidella Bucher, Vera
Alice Bucher, Eloise Lora, Esther
Amstutz, Vinton Bucher, LeRoy Lug
ibill. Mrs. Vinton Bucher is the
accompanist.
Sportsmen’s Meeting
Plans for fall activities will be
made at a meeting of the Bluffton
Community Sportsmen’s club to be
held at the town hall club rooms
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, it was
announced by Silas Diller, president
of the organization.
Walter L. Bluck, Clinton county
agricultural agent, reports local
farmers are lining corn cribs with
roofing or building paper to provide
storage for grain and soybeans. Ear
corn will be put in cribs made of
snow fence or other materials.
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